Vic short changed on health care: Premier

Hospitals and healthcare centres in Victoria would be short-changed more than $2 billion under a federal government plan to cap sector spending, Daniel Andrews says.

The premier had vowed to fight hard at Friday's COAG meeting to get fairer funding for Victoria, after a draft plan was leaked to Fairfax Media.

"They are effectively not honouring the agreement we have now, and now they want us to sign up to an agreement that's not a 50-50 partnership," he said on Thursday.

The Commonwealth would short-change Victoria by $2.1 billion by capping spending growth at 6.5 per cent and not increasing the contribution rate from 45 per cent, he added.

"We need to have a proper partnership and they need to honour the agreement that we have today; there's about $100 million owed to Victorian patients," Mr Andrews said referring to the current National Health Reform Agreement.

According to the state government, the $104 million that was already owed by the federal government could pay for 100,000 chemotherapy treatments or 650 nurses.